Bondage to the Dead

Michael C. Steinlauf focuses on Polish witnessing of the Holocaust. This experience amounted, he argues, to a mass psychic and moral trauma unprecedented in history.

About the author

Michael C. Steinlauf teaches history at Gratz College in Philadelphia. A Fulbright Fellow in 1983-84, he was one of the first students allowed to study Jewish history in Poland. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Brandeis University, and Franklin and Marshall College and has been a senior research fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.

Summary

Rather than having spent the last 50 years coming to terms with the magnitude of evil of the Holocaust, this book is about a country that, according to the author, has largely ignored its participation and attempted to minimize its national memory of the event.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Steinlauf, Michael C Steinlauf, Michael C. Steinlauf
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1997
• EAN: 9780815604037
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0403-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 219 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 292 g
• Series: Modern Jewish History; Modern Jewish History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries